Politics is an activity associated with the governance of a country or area, and this explains the basis for debates between parties contending for power.
Few days ago, I had a phone conversation with a friend who happens to be a senior lecturer in one of our universities who shared with me some of the reasons why elites needs to come down from their three storey building to join politics.
You will agree with me that those that participate in local politics are the old men and women. As a matter of fact, many of them didn’t go to school, hence, it’s very difficult to change their mindsets on what they believe on because they’ve a fixed mindset engineered by particular individuals who gives them information either genuine or not.
Also, you will agree with me that 95% of Nigeria voters are those old men and women who cannot even identify the party they want to vote for – what they do is to beckon on a trusted learned fellow on the day of election to help them identify either Umbrella or Broom.
Sadly, these are the people that determines who rule us for every four years, either as governor or president.
On the day of election, the so called elites would stay glued to their televisions monitoring what’s going on in each polling unit without them going out to cast their votes, only for them to come out later to castigate the process or the chosen leaders.
If we’ll still have Nigeria come 2023, the so called elites and youths must be ready to take the lead role, enlighten our mothers, fathers on the reason they must change the status quo. Yes, we have seen what the APC could offer– and on every indices, it is far below expectations. This is why I believe Nigerians will never make mistake of entrusting them with their mandate anymore.
However, I don’t know who the PDP will present as their presidential candidate, but should it present the usual old faces, then no doubt that is going to be a collosal failure for the party.
APC promised us change, as they entered they changed the promise.
